This week, Kevin talks technical savvy and goes where many gamers fear to tread - the inside of a home computer.

There's been a lot of argument in the feedback section recently about the pros and cons of Macs and PCs. I have a PC, and quite frankly wouldn't swap it for a Mac. However, I recognise that the Mac has tried to achieve something, and has succeeded. Apple wanted an attractive, easy-to-use, relatively powerful home computer that was good for beginners. And they did, and have sold lots. Congratulations to them.

The problem is, the Mac's users probably won't learn much about how computers work, and what to do when they go wrong. I suspect that the majority of 'computer experts' in the widest possible sense (ranging from the hardcore PC gamer to computer programmers) grew up using computers based on either DOS\Win 3x (PC) or Basic (BBC Micro, Spectrum etc) operating systems. Sure, these aren't as easy to use as the Mac OS, but I'm sure the only reason I know the difference between a monitor and a floppy drive is that I had a 286, running DOS, (Windows 2x wasn't really worth it - although I seem to recall paintbrush with 32 shades of black and white).

When my dad was around he could help me, because he's a computer programmer, but when he wasn't, well, I had to make the darned things work myself. Sometimes, I'd get bored and muck around making little programs in GW-Basic. And all this paid off, I can make games work, and compared to many people, know a lot about computers (and before someone calls me a big-headed twat, compared to a lot of people, I don't, okay?).